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| Johnny Barnes | |
| General Manager Technology and CTO IBM | |
| 6710 Rockledge Drive Bethesda, | |
| Maryland 20817. | |
| jgbarnes@us.ibm.com | |
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| Mr. Barnes has over 30 years of experience with IBM, holding a variety of product, solution development, staff, system architecture, management and executive positions. Mr. Barnes has been appointed to several IBM corporate staff positions, which have included a number of critical IBM product and strategy task forces responsible for establishing the future technical and business direction for IBM. Mr. Barnes has also worked to re-engineer IBM's internal hardware development, global computing and telephony environments and grow IBM's Public Sector transformation services business. Mr. Barnes' professional experience includes several years of business and technical management of customer solution contracts and IBM worldwide organizations. Mr. Barnes was responsible for the definition of IBM's Manufacturing Industries' Worldwide Technical Strategy and the development of key components of the strategy. Throughout Mr. Barnes' career with IBM, he has received 8 patents, 3 IBM invention achievement awards, several IBM informal, divisional, and corporate awards for his technical and management contributions to IBM. Mr. Barnes has also been published on several occasions. In an executive position as the Director of Hardware Common Tools, Mr. Barnes was responsible for transforming IBM's worldwide hardware and systems development strategy in support of IBM's re-engineered business process, Integrated Product Development (IPD). As Vice President of Global IT Infrastructure, Mr. Barnes was responsible for transforming IBM's global infrastructure to both a premier e-business computing and VOIP telephony environment ($2.5B budget). As the Vice President and Deputy CIO, Mr. Barnes was responsible for IBM's worldwide intranet, application and information architecture, data and voice infrastructure, alliance management and advanced technology deployment within IBM ($3.5B budget). As the Vice President of Technology and Federal Solutions, Mr. Barnes was responsible for transforming a troubled strategic government agency infrastructure program into a success. Mr. Barnes' management responsibilities have included business management, strategy, architecture, design, development and deployment of both IBM and customer business solutions utilizing the latest HW, SW and development technologies and IT standards. Mr. Barnes has an overall perspective of the computer industry and its applicability to business segments, as well as IBM's strategic plans to meet the distributed computing and e-business on demand market to satisfy future critical business requirements. Currently, as General Manager Technology and Corporate Technology Officer, Mr. Barnes has responsibility for IBM's WW Public Sector Technical and Solution Strategy and expanding IBM's Public Sector transformation service business. Mr. Barnes holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston and attended graduate school at the University of Texas concentrating on software engineering. |
